I miss my bike
 

Let me start by giving the back story on this, On Oct. the 3rd i had to take my 2011 ulta in because of lifters tapping on cold start up. At that time the dealer replaced the lifters and 1 other part. cant remember exactly what. Anyway 3 weeks later it started again, except it didnt do it every time. So i waited untill it would give me the tapping noise on every startup. Took it back this past monday (11-14). this time they replaced the lifters with screaming eagle lifters and adj. pushrods... no dice its still doing the same thing. So yesterday (sat.) they were going into topend to look at something else. If that wasnt the problem the service mgr said something about the cam plate. They offered to loan me a bike but since i wasnt riding this weekend, and with rain in the forecast Mon. and Tues. i didnt see the point. With this week being Thankgiving week i am not sure if i will see my bike untill the week after. of course they still havnt found the problem yet and that concernes me. Before anyone asked the tapping would go away after a few min. of warming up. I did have to laugh when he said they were changing out my amsoil for screaming eagle oil to see if that was the problem. when i talked to him yesterday i asked him to change it back as that is what i prefer to use.. he said no problem.
That is why i miss my bike....ho hum....:(

Well at least they didn't stick to the normal script that "that's how it's suppose to run".

send it a letter

Off topic a bit I'm sorry but will someone please explain the allure of this amsoil bullshit ? It' isn't any different that any other other oil product I was in the industry for a while so I know what goes into the blends for dino & synthetics .

i sent a e-mail instead...:icon_goofygrin:

That's cute your avatar is dry humpin a stuffed animal--allure

If you and the dealer are correcting identifying the sound as the lifters it would appear they are bleeding down. And the fact they changed them out and you still have the problem makes me say I'm with Twisted on using synthetic oil. Change out to straight 50 weight HD oil, or if it gets real cold where you're at, 20-50 weight HD oil. Harleys have been running just fine on Dino oil for a hundred years. All this synthetic hype is just that. It's the "New & Improved" way to separate dollars from your wallet. Hydraulic lifters need low viscosity oil to stay up!

:)

Hang in there. You'll get things sorted out and be back on the road soon. And remember, there are many in the snow belt who won't ride again until March or April 2012.

Sounds like you have a good dealer whos willing to fix it.

How does 50 wt. oil help this?...

Trucky911